Thursday, December 17, 2015

Omnibus spending bill includes quadrupling the number of low-skilled H-2B visas for foreigners...

Buried in the 2,000-page omnibus
spending bill released by the Senate Wednesday morning is a secret
provision that many senators hope unemployed blue-collar workers won’t
find out about.
This provision would quadruple the number of H-2B visas for
low-skilled foreign “guest workers.” It would allow more than a
quarter-of-a-million foreign workers to enter the U.S. each year and
work in the construction industry, hotel-motel services, truck drivers,
food processing, forestry and many other fields that don’t require a
college education.
A vote on the spending bill is expected late Thursday night, possibly after midnight, sources on the Hill told WND.
The bill also includes funding for all of President Obama’s foreign
refugee resettlement program and does nothing to stop the proliferation
of so-called “sanctuary cities.”
Legal immigration is already at an all-time high, with 1.1 million
foreign-born persons coming to the U.S. every year, and a recent Pew
Research poll shows 83 percent of the voting public wishes to see the
level of immigration frozen or reduced. Read it all...